Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 11:33:35 12/23/00
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On December 23, 2000 at 12:37:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 23, 2000 at 12:26:24, Ferdinand S. Mosca wrote: > >>What's the main idea why engines have to be like this. >> >>Regards, >>Dinan > > >I don't know that "all" are like that. But it is very likely that they will >both resign _and_ play a move, which is perfectly acceptable by normal chess >rules... > >To not play a move would take some extra code, and it would be used only >rarely. Less code == fewer unexpected problems in the code... That issue bothered me a bit, cause sending move and immediately resigning can cause winboard timing problems. I myself don't see the reason why resign code can't be executed before 'sending move' code (which would be suppressed after 'resign' was send). However still many programs are written to make move, then resign (crafty, arasan, comet to name a few). -Andrew-
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